'If you say anything to anyone, I will make sure that your loved ones pay the price.'
It was the words Felix first heard from the video apart from the unpleasant sound of pleas and screams of three men.
He immediately covered Yelena's ears and buried her face in his broad chest. "Don't look anymore. Don't try to hear anything else but my voice. Only listen to me."
He gestured Matthew to turn off the laptop and the guard instantly complied with it.
"It will be alright." He slowly withdrew his hands from her ears and caressed her head.
"My brother. H -he was like that be -because of me." Yelena stuttered as the video she received from an unknown person keeps on playing in her mind.
The screams and helplessly gritting teeth of her beloved brother, the warning of an unknown man in the video and the scenes of the ruthless torture; it was implanted in her mind.